barack obama won by three percentage points. this is a divided country. >> that does not absolve anyone of the business of getting this done. >> i agree. i want a resolution here. think actually there's room for i think there will be some kind of bargain in the next couple days or next few weeks then we move on to these bigger issues that you've been talking about. >> let us hope. >> one last point if i may. whether we improve these tax increases for the rich or not, is you know, you've said this yourself. we still have a trillion-dollar deficit. we've got a lot of work to do. >> we do have a lot of work to do all i ask is we get the work down. stephen moore, always a pleasure to talk to you. we'll be talking a lot in 2013. >>> coming up, the great tax debate that stephen was just talking about. does raising tax on the wealthy really hurt the economy? i'll give you an answer after this. >>> the biggest issue in all the fiscal cliff wrangling is taxes. it's not the most important issue, but it's the central one. grover norquist t